One Of The New York Times Best Books Of The Year A Best Book Of Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus, AV Club National Book Award FinalistFinalist For The National Book Critics Circle John Leonard PrizeLonglisted For The Center For Fiction First Novel Prize National Best Seller Splendidly Imagined Thrilling Simon Winchester A Genuine Masterpiece Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, Moving Evoking A Fascinating Region On The Other Side Of The World This Suspenseful And Haunting Story Announces The Debut Of A Profoundly Gifted WriterOne August Afternoon, On The Shoreline Of The Kamchatka Peninsula At The Northeastern Edge Of Russia, Two Girls Sisters, Eight And Eleven Go Missing In The Ensuing Weeks, Then Months, The Police Investigation Turns Up Nothing Echoes Of The Disappearance Reverberate Across A Tightly Woven Community, With The Fear And Loss Felt Most Deeply Among Its WomenTaking Us Through A Year In Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth Enters With Astonishing Emotional Acuity The Worlds Of A Cast Of Richly Drawn Characters, All Connected By The Crime A Witness, A Neighbor, A Detective, A Mother We Are Transported To Vistas Of Rugged Beauty Densely Wooded Forests, Open Expanses Of Tundra, Soaring Volcanoes, And The Glassy Seas That Border Japan And Alaska And Into A Region As Complex As It Is Alluring, Where Social And Ethnic Tensions Have Long Simmered, And Where Outsiders Are Often The First To Be AccusedIn A Story As Propulsive As It Is Emotionally Engaging, And Through A Young Writer S Virtuosic Feat Of Empathy And Imagination, This Powerful Novel Brings Us To A New Understanding Of The Intricate Bonds Of Family And Community, In A Russia Unlike Any We Have Seen Before